Hand weaving device



March 1,1949. v I PSTEIN 2,463,365

HAND' WEAVING DEVICE Filed March 12,1946, 2 Sheets-Shec 1 ATTORNEY g. INVENTOR HERMAN EPSTEIN March .1, 1949. H. EPSTEIN 2,463,365

' HAND WEAVING DEVICE Filed March 12, 1946 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 'INVENTOR HERMAN EPSTEIN BY fi QC g qz ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 1, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HANDWEAVING DEVICE.

Herman Epstein, Newark, N. J.

pplication Mar h 946, Serial No. 653,7

8 Claims. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in hand-weaving implements.

The object of this invention is an implement to facilitate handeweaving, to speed up the work, and to insure uniformity of the product.

This object is accomplished by the use of a weaving device which has pins, or the like, holding the four ed es of a fabric pattern and in which the strands within the space surrounded by the-pins are guided, e. g. by rows of upright projections.

In accordance with one feature of this invention, a hand-operated tool is provided to depress certain lengths of yarn within the guides to allow ready weaving by means of a needle.

This object and other features of the invention will be more clearly apparent from the following detailed description, the appended claims and the drawings in which:

Fig. l is a perspective of part of the weaving board with four lengths of yarn in place;

Fig. 2 is a perspective of a modification of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the board on the lines 3--3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the yarn-depressing tool;

Fig. 5 is a cross section along lines 5-5 of Fig. 4; and

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the tool of Fig. 4 placed on the board section of Fig. 3.

Referring to Fig. l, the weaving board proper comprises a base 5 and pins 6, which may be made in one piece or separately, and out of wood, plastic, light metal or any other suitable material. The pins 6 are perpendicular to the base 5 and form a rectangle or square around the board near its edges. Only a few pins 6 and a corner of the board are shown in Fig. 1. The pins 6 enclose a space in which upright projections l are provided reaching approximately to the midpoints of the pins 6. The prongs l are arranged vertically in intersecting longitudinal and transverse rows. The warp and weft lengths of yarn are continuously laid in alternate rows. Prongs 1 guide the yarn lengths between opposite pins 6 and prevent its displacement; The completed fabric can be taken off the board by slipping it over the tops of the pins 6 and prongs I.

It will be noted that the warp lengths of yarn I lie between alternate longitudinal rows of prongs I and rest on the bottoms 8. 2 indicates the weft lengths of yarn which extend at 90 on top of the lengths I. Warp lengths of yarn 3 lie in the rows skipped by lengths l and lie on top and at 2 to the lengths 2. The prongs I keep the lengths l; 2 and 3 from lateral displacement.

After lengths I, 2 and 3 have been laid on the weaving board, a tool it) (Fig. 4,) is used to prepare the lengths for insertion of the weaving lengths of'yarn' 4. The tool I0 is used-to depress the lengths 3 below the level of the lengths l which are resting on 8 above base 5. The tool It) maybe made out of wood, plastic, light metal or any other suitable material. In approximately the middle of the tool a handle II is provided, The tool It] has forks l2 with tines l3 similarto the prongs l of the base 5. The tool It) is slightly longer than a horizontal row of prongs I. When placed horizontally to the weaving board; the spaces l4 between forks l2 of the tool In willfit over prongs 1, and the forks 12 will fit between adjacent prongs I.

As above stated, and as best shown in Figs. 3 and 6, the bottoms 8 between the prongs 1 are substantially higher than the base 5. When the yarn-depressing tool I0 is applied to a transverse row of prongs, the tines l3 will straddle and depress the lengths 3 substantially below the lengths l as from position a. to position b. The spaces [4 of the tool [U will fit over alternate pairs of prongs I and lengths l of the yarn will be untouched.

The parts 9 of the base 5 which lie within alternate rows of prongs 1 (Fig. 1) are higher than base 5, but not as high as 8. As shown in Fig. 6, there is sufficient room left between 9 and the yarn lengths l resting on 8 for the insertion of a needle l5 which is threaded with the weaving length of yarn 4. The needle I5 is inserted in one end of the tool in between the forks l2 (Fig. 5) and pulls the yarn through to the other end of the tool In. The yarn 4 will pass under the lengths I and over the lengths 3. This weaving operation is repeated in the alternate transverse rows skipped when lengths 2 were laid. The weaving operation performed by lengths it binds lengths I, 2 and 3 into a single layer fabric.

Holes l6 in the base 5 (Figs. 1, 3 and 6) serve as guides for the yarn-depressing tool ID. The holes l6 are provided between the pins 6 and the edges of the base 5, at either end of every transverse row of prongs I in which lengths 4 are woven. Dowels H are provided at either extremity of the tool Ill and fit into the holes IS in the base 5. Slots l8 (Fig. 4) are also provided in either end of the tool l0, permitting it to pass over the pins 6 when it is placed in position.

Fig. 2 shows a modification of Fig. 1. Ledges 19 are provided underneath the longitudinal rows of prongs I. The ledges 19 provide an additional level besides 8 and 9 above the base 5, and raise the lengths of yarn l which lie between prongs 1, that much more above 5. When the tool I0 is applied the lengths of yarn 3 will be depressed even lower in respect to lengths 1. Thus it will be virtually impossible to pass the needle 14 other than under the lengths I and over the lengths 3.

What I claim is:

1. In a hand weaving device a base, a plurality of projections extending from the base, a plurality of pins surrounding said projections so as to form a space across which yarn may be laid in superimposed longitudinal and transverse lengths whose ends are looped around said pins, said projections supporting the yarn lengths to prevent lateral displacement thereof.

2. The device according to claim 1 and in which said projections are approximately half as high as said pins.

3. The device according to claim 1, and in which second longitudinal lengths are superimposed on the transverse lengths, the second longitudinal lengths being held by the guides against lateral displacement but free to be moved to a level below that of the first longitudinal lengths.

4. The device according to claim 1, and in which second transverse lengths are woven by means of a needle under the first longitudinal lengths and over the second longitudinal lengths.

5. The device according to claim 1, and in which said projections are vertical pins formed into a square, and said guides are prongs perpendicular to said base and reaching approxima to the mid-points of said pins.

6. The device according to claim 1, and in which said guides are placed on ledges so that the second longitudinal lengths may be moved to a level substantially below that of the first longitudinal lengths.

7. In a hand weaving device a base having intersecting rows of vertical projections arranged to hold longitudinal and transverse lengths of yarn laid across said device, said base having one level between certain rows and a higher level between other rows, and a tool for depressing the yarn lengths in rows having the lower level below the yarn lengths in the higher level rows comprising a needle guide for transversely passing yarn above the depressed yarn lengths an below the lengths in said higher level.

8. The hand weaving device according to claim '7 and in which guide means are provided in said base for aligning the tool with certain rows and. slots in said tool for permitting it to fit over said vertical projections.

HERMAN EPSTEIN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,157,791 Klima May 9, 1939 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 496,137 Germany May 1, 1929 582,345 Germany Aug. 12, 1933 

